to obtain resources

ISIS/ISIL were founded by the US during the earlier conflicts with Syria and Lybia

this is how its done when they have a country they want to destabilise they fund rival groups to the ruling power in order to seed conflict then they claim that since there's conflict they have to go and "help"

which basically means initiate war

another way of gaining support for war is by using false flag events which entail faking an attack on themselves to justify retaliation... thats what 9/11 was

the thing is if you continually deny someone their basic human rights and basically mistreat them i believe that there will ultimately be a point where in order to balance things out the same will happen to you

and i don't think that the american people realise this but that's just my 2c

Cause they want to have their influence in every part of the world.

America is so ridiculously peaceful when you consider our military budget. Immortal Technique in a song said the United States has a "defense budget of world conquest proportions" and it's true. Almost 37% of the entire world's military expenditures belong to the US. We spent 640 billion in 2013.

Anyway, here's the current reason we're purging the middle east for the rest of the world.

"If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven." - Barrack Obama (Sept. 10, 2014)

I expected to hear an eagle cry and for fireworks to go off outside the window behind him when he said that during his speech Wednesday night.

thats why your country is now in debt. trillions upon trilions... with that cash you could dave built space elevator.

War is great for distracting the local populace from the failings and offenses of their own government by uniting them against an enemy real or imagined.

Also, its worth noting that America is just great at war and few nations that are so capable stop of their own accord without some sort of challenge to their military supremacy.

Hopefully both America and China will be rendered unable to engage in voluntary warfare by keeping each other in check. Worse case they go back to the proxy wars of the Cold war.

Control, resource gathering, placement of military installations in strategic places and stimulating the economy since a lot of major companies profit on warfare (rich companies, poor state, the obvious result of hardcore capitalism).

Simple: industrial military complex makes politicians money when the economy is planned toward war. The effect will be the same as what happened to the sovunion.

Also it had nothing to do with oil. Europe and Asia benefit from the middle east's oil about three times more than the U.S. The U.S can afford to go without middle eastern oil, Asia and Europe can not.It is all the industrial~military complex sucking from the rest of the economy and creating deadweight loss for its own benefit. Obama must play along because he doesnt have real power/he is brainwashed.

Or you know state socialism lol (see: Soviet Union.) This is an effect of statism, not property rights.

Didn't realize we had so many conspiracy theorists on this site.